Bug 870761

Created attachment 634620 [details]
report listing unknown locales returned by locale.normalize()

This attachment shows that out of 843 locales in locale.locale_alias, 297 raise an "unsupported locale setting" exception when passed to setlocale(). However, the Python documentation says that they are "formatted for use with setlocale()":

locale.normalize(localename)

    Returns a normalized locale code for the given locale name. The returned locale code is formatted for use with setlocale(). If normalization fails, the original name is returned unchanged.

    If the given encoding is not known, the function defaults to the default encoding for the locale code just like setlocale().

http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/locale.html#locale.normalize

Created attachment 634622 [details]
locale-normalize-test-1.py report generator

This is the Python program used to generate the previously attached report.

Here's another example:

'sr_RS.UTF-8@latin' is a valid locale, but locale.normalize('sr_RS.UTF-8@latin') returns 'sr_RS.utf_8_latin', which is an invalid locale:

>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'sr_RS.UTF-8@latin')
'sr_RS.UTF-8@latin'

>>> locale.normalize('sr_RS.UTF-8@latin')
'sr_RS.utf_8_latin'

>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'sr_RS.utf_8_latin')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/locale.py", line 539, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

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Bumping to F19:
python-2.7.5-1.fc19.x86_64
glibc-common-2.17-11.fc19.x86_64

$ python
Python 2.7.5 (default, May 16 2013, 13:44:12) 
[GCC 4.8.0 20130412 (Red Hat 4.8.0-2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.normalize('ar')
'ar_AA.ISO8859-6'
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'ar_AA.ISO8859-6')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/locale.py", line 547, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

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